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NASA on Monday highlighted a photo of the icy moon taken by the agency's Cassini spacecraft in October. The image strikes a remarkable resemblance to the Death Star, particularly the moon's 86-mile wide Herschel Crater, which nearly matches the fictional weapon's planet-destroying laser.

According to NASA, Mimas' crater doesn't contain anything so sinister. The only thing poking from it is a mountain the size of Everest -- a common formation in large impact craters.